Dr. Mehrdad Ghoreishi

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Get to know Cardiothoracic Surgeon Dr. Mehrdad Ghoreishi, who serves patients in Baltimore, Maryland.

A seasoned cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Ghoreishi works with patients within the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He can also be found on staff at UM St. Joseph Medical Center.

The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) is the flagship academic medical center at the heart of UMMS and includes the 789-bed downtown Baltimore campus and the 177-bed midtown campus one mile north. The medical staff comprises nearly 1,200 attending physicians who are faculty members at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, as well as 900 residents and fellows in all medical specialties.

Back in 2004, Dr. Ghoreishi earned his medical degree from the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Iran, and completed a residency at the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2008. Upon relocating to the United States, he completed his internship at the MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in 2014, and his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2019.

In pursuit of clinical excellence, the doctor is board-certified in cardiothoracic surgery by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, an American surgical organization devoted to surgery of the chest.

To boot, he is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.

Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in the surgical treatment of organs inside the thorax. Cardiothoracic surgeons are medical doctors who specialize in surgical procedures inside the thorax, which may involve the heart, lungs, esophagus, and other organs in the chest. Alongside performing surgery, they also diagnose and treat diseases of these organs.

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